I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Fear is the intended result of codifying homophobia into law.
When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.
Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.
The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.
I believe that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it.
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.
Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.
It’s not some romanticized Atticus Finch-type picnic. You’d probably love it, the whole risk of it all, but it’s not without a price. Out there in this city when you pass the bar, it’s all broken drea...
Producing laws is not an easier job than producing cars and food, so if the government is incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within w...
I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.
Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses.
Who are the Brissotins? A good question.You see, if you accuse people of a crime (for example, and especially, conspiracy) and refuse to sever their trials, then it will at once be seen that they are...
But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.